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What’s New in UML2
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Short Talk
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© 2006 by IBM; made available under the EPL v1.0
Challenges
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Since the specification has been at various stages of finalization,
the API has been a moving target
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Aspects of the standard metamodel (redefinition,
subsets/supersets, unions) made the mapping to Java
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XMI non-trivial
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There were a number of errors in the specification which, until
fixed, made the API and XMI schema difficult to use
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Compliance points for UML are a subject of debate within the
modeling community